Trump is threatening to double tariffs on Mexico over a caravan of roughly 1,500 migrants walking north from Tapachula. Some migrants told Reuters they see last week’s Democratic midterm victories as a chance for more welcoming US immigration policies. Trump is turning that hope into a trade threat. He hasn’t specified which tariff rates would double, which products would be hit or when Mexico must act.
🚨BREAKING: Trump threatens to 'IMMEDIATELY DOUBLE' tariffs on Mexico unless it stops migrant caravans heading toward the U.S.
The threat follows a caravan that left Tapachula in southern Mexico on Tuesday.
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There’s a much bigger issue behind the threat. Washington and Mexico City are negotiating a replacement trade arrangement after Trump declined to extend the USMCA in July. The Supreme Court also ruled in February that Trump couldn’t use emergency-powers law to impose his earlier sweeping tariffs, forcing the administration to withdraw those duties and find other legal routes. So this isn’t simply another border dispute. Trade negotiations, immigration enforcement and the limits of presidential tariff authority are colliding again. The peso fell after Trump’s post. Mexico now has to decide how to respond without letting migration policy dictate the terms of an already complicated trade negotiation.
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